Here is an early XIXth century (period 1830-1840) Black Forest clock, with typical 23 notes organ, barrel playing 8 tunes.All is complete and the clock is working thanks to its exceptional bronze cogs instead of the usual wood ones. Only the bellow unit is to leather again, and that explains its very good price of only :€ 9,400.00 FOB FrancePlease note the original period case in fine walnut wood.

If the wooden furniture is signing the early period, it is without any doubt the delightful paintings of the clock that are winning all our attention : a typical Romantic country scene at the bottom (couple of shepherds) and a lively street scene at the top (2 men - recruiting sergeants ? and a boy).Above the clock opens a little 3D theatre, middle of painted red curtain and naive roses garlands, and on the stage are 2 automatons musicians playing trumpets in hussards costums !

Any collector would be delighted to find into this instrument authentic period tracks, such as :* the original list of the tunes - in German : march, hunting tunes, Swiss echoes, French contradances...* a note - in French, telling where the clock was bought (at Strasbourg, France, just opposite side of the Rhine river from the Black Forest) and for how much (800 francs), and describing its "very nice sound"* the signature of the painter !